A House subcommittee Tuesday interviewed New York’s former governor on his handling of the COVID crisis. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration was accused of underreporting the number of deaths in the state’s nursing homes, but in prepared remarks to the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Cuomo said the policy of admitting COVID-positive patients into nursing homes in the early days of the pandemic was the policy of the federal government that the state was following. At a press conference outside the Capitol yesterday, Rockland Congressman Mike Lawler of the 17th District said Cuomo is covering up for his failures…
Cuomo said The Department of Justice, Manhattan’s D-A, New York’s Attorney General, and the New York State Assembly all investigated the situation and none validated the accusations against him. Cuomo added it wasn’t sick patients that brought COVID into nursing homes, but staff members and visitors who unknowingly brought the virus in before they even knew COVID was already here.